‘Mutilated’ Chinars on Sgr-Islamabad highway

I was amazed and shocked to see the level of official apathy on the Srinagar-Islamabad highway. Right from the Badami Bagh Cantonment to Pampore, many Chinars along the highway have been painted shabbily with white, saffron and green lines, one above the other. One wonders who has mutilated the Chinars More

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Dental Surgeons’ list: another joke?

The list of dental surgeons issued by the Public Service Commission is yet another blow to the aspirations of hundreds of unemployed doctors in the valley. The list has completely shattered the dreams of the deserving candidates. The list has no credibility and it is difficult to understand how an MDS More

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‘Inadequate’ compensation

The recent windstorm left the village Vodhpora, Handwara, in a shambles. The storm claimed some human lives and caused severe economic loss to people as well. The crops in the village were destroyed; fruit and walnut orchards were damaged. The Jammu and Kashmir government has failed to make an accurate More

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Dog menace: Where is SMC?

This refers to the dog menace in Srinagar. One fails to understand why the Srinagar Municipal Corporation is not able to curb the menace. Everyday, people face immense inconvenience due to increasing number of dogs in the city. The dogs have made the movement of people extremely difficult. The worse More

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Appeal to SSB chairman

The selection list for the post of drivers in Health Department, District Srinagar, is pending with the Service Selection Recruitment Board since 2008 for unknown reasons.  Despite several requests made to Chairman and Secretary, SSB, no action has been taken so far despite the fact that driving More

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Pay anomaly

Engineers are considered to be the backbone of infrastructure and development but the decrease of salary of engineers has only helped to crush the scientific support of development. Our basic pay is an exact replica of that of a Line man which is nothing but a shame. The state government should immediately More

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Appeal to PSC chairman

This refers to the recent cut-off merit in the screening test of Mathematics announced by the Public Service Commission. The authorities have not considered the merit as per their advertisement notification, which is injustice with the candidates who don’t fall in the cut off merit. I request the PSC More

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Repair road in Bijbehara

We the residents of Bijbehara want to invite the attention of authorities to the day to day problems we are facing, particularly the poor drainage system and dilapidated interior roads. The main road that connects the town with highway is in a shambles. The road remains muddy for the whole year due to More

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Begging menace

The population of beggars in Srinagar is growing exponentially. The menace of street begging is a potential threat to our very social fabric. Many social commentators have attributed this growth in street begging to poverty, real or imagined. Is it really as a result of poverty or due to the manipulation More

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SSB must work properly

The SSB issued a selection list of Jr. Assistants selected in different departments in your newspaper on 25/ 26 December 2009. In the same list some candidates were selected in General Administration Department and their selection list was forwarded to GAD on the next day of the publication of the list More

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Headless SP College

The SP College is a premier institution of the state. However, for the last three months this academic institution is without its principal. Notwithstanding the compulsions, for the welfare of the students and society in general and for maintaining the competitive edge in this era of cut throat competition More

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